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For the past 400 years there has been a minority rule by the wealthiest men in North America. The war for liberation from England was to preserve slavery and the billions in wealth in provided to a few elites in the North and in the South. Every war since that time has been fought to drive people off their lands and enslave their labor, whether in the Phillipines, Guam, Hawaii, Panama, Puerto Rico, and other US colonies, or to protect U.S. business interests in Europe and Asia and Latin America.

The U.S. government has destroyed democratic governments around the world from Haiti to Iran. The U.S. has never been a democracy with a Bill of Rights when applied to people of color. Asian American citizens had their property seized and were put in prison camps during WW II. Now in a post 9-11 hysteria fostered by the elites owning concentrated corporate media the Bill of Rights does not exist even for "white" people. After supporting so many fascist governments it is only fitting that our own government is increasingly fascist.

Franklin D Roosevelt summed it up very well when he stated "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism, ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”

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